On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 20:58 +0800, Luming Yu wrote: > > > Both __native_flush_tlb() and __native_flush_tlb_single(...) > introduced roughly 1 ns latency to tsc sampling executed in > stop_machine_context in two logical CPUs But you have to weight that against the cost of re-population, and that's the difficult bit, since we have no clue how many tlb entries are in use by the current cr3. It might be possible for intel to give us this information, I've asked for something similar for cachelines. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html